3 Weeks with my Oticon Intent 1. Need advice

[Zebras]

@Volusiano

But with Oticon aids, in just the same single program, the noise suppression and the directionality settings are not fixed, but they’re varied automatically by the Oticon aids depending on what environment the Oticon aids find themselves in.

@Volusiano

the Oticon aids continuously adjust the relevant settings back and forth in much smaller incremental values as the environment changes from very simple to simple to moderate to complex to very complex and anything in between at any time, all in the same single default program.

This sounds really good. I never knew this.

I’ve gone back to wearing my Xceed HAs as managed to set them up well.

I’ll have to try and notice if the HAs change. So far I haven’t.

[jeffrey]

Just recall that the hype surrounding AI often exceeds the reality. I read an article in the NYTimes about AI being introduced to to take peoples’ orders at a drive through restaurant. It didn’t work out. This isn’t the only example of failure by a long shot. The tech is still developing. Oticon’s aspirations are wonderful, and maybe they’ve succeeded! I don’t want to be a bummer. Still, I’m going to wait a bit for the initial glow to wear off in order the hear longer term reviews of these aids.

I’ve read many reviews of the new high end luthier guitar someone has just bought where the new owner is over the moon! Best guitar ever! 6 months later the guitar will appear on the ‘for sale’ thread.

[Zebras]

@jeffrey

Phonak used to call their AutoSense, SoundFlow. When it was SoundFlow, I thought it worked really well. I’ve never got on with AutoSense as it seems to always stay in Calm no matter what the transition speed is.

It’s still early days with wearing the Xceed’s again but I’m intrigued.

[cvkemp]

I have the More1, Real1 and now the INTENT1. I am extremely lucky to have my VA benefits and my VA audiologist that has gone far above and beyond to help me to be able to understand speech. I can say this i notice an improvement at every step of my journey to understand speech better. The More1 aids was a definite improvement over the OPNS1, the Real1 aids was an improvement with speech in noise and to a lesser extent sudden noise. My INTENT1 aids at this point are proving to be an improvement with speech, music, and sudden noise. I haven’t noticed much or any improvement in wind noise. But wind noise hasn’t been an issue since the More1 aids. But I will always say that the audiologist makes or breaks the experience even more than the aids. But so far with the INTENT1 aids, my VA audiologist and with the help from the Oticon audiologists that have been interested with my case I have a tremendous team.

[ronshere]

Rather than give up on the Oticon Intents and trade down to inferior hearing aids it would be better to get eye glass frames that work with the Intent hearing aids.

[cvkemp]

I wear wire rim glasses and i don’t have issues with my hearing aids and glasses

[jeffrey]

@cvkemp

I am extremely lucky to have my VA benefits and my VA audiologist that has gone far above and beyond to help me to be able to understand speech.

Wonderful attitude, cvkemp! Had I been in the military, they would have assigned me to the laundry room, according to my bravery and abilities. In any case those of us who have affordable insurance or income that can allow purchasing HAs are indeed very lucky. Rockefeller would have spent millions on restoring his hearing, had that been possible back in the day. I myself would rather live in a modest studio apartment and have my hearing, than live in a mansion and be effectively deaf. hearing is priceless, even if it’s not quite what it used to be. I’'m also grateful every time I hear the opening chimes of my hearing aids.

[cvkemp]

I was in the Navy for 8 years, I was an electronics technician, lucky enough to have a great record and a top secret security clearance. I am not sure which Rockefeller you are talking about, but I provided secure communication for Nelson Rockefeller while he was the Vice President. He was a kind down to earth person. I spend a lot of time at his Tarrytown NY home, and a number os trips to New York City, for theaters and concerts.

[Baltazard]

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[cvkemp]

I have heard that name somewhere. But don’t think i know him. I was a member of the White House Communication Agency, 1973 - 1977

[Baltazard]

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[jeffrey]

@cvkemp

I am not sure which Rockefeller you are talking about, but I provided secure communication for Nelson Rockefeller while he was the Vice President. He was a kind down to earth person. I spend a lot of time at his Tarrytown NY home, and a number os trips to New York City, for theaters and concerts.

Whoa! I want to hear more about this! Yes I understand that you weren’t a confidant…still, to be that close to Rockefeller is remarkable! It’s often true that the real character of man shows in how he interacts with his so called subordinates. a real man…a Mensch, as Jews say…is comfortable with everyone. It sounds like this was your experience with Rockefeller.

[mr.smithster]

@ronshere

Rather than give up on the Oticon Intents and trade down to inferior hearing aids

So ALL other aids are a step down??? Funny stuff

[cvkemp]

To me and my experiences it is a fact that all other aids are a step backwards

[Volusiano]

@mr.smithster

@ronshere

Rather than give up on the Oticon Intents and trade down to inferior hearing aids

So ALL other aids are a step down??? Funny stuff

If I recall correctly, the intention and remark about the OP wanting to find a hearing aid model that would fit with his glass frame better was about switching down to older/previous Oticon hearing aid models like the Real or the More. So in this case, the original comment (not necessarily @ronshere 's comment, though) wasn’t referring to trading down to other aid brands per se, it was about trading down to inferior Oticon models like the Real or More. So yeah, those previous Oticon aid models are for sure a step down compared to the Intent.

[mr.smithster]

To each their own. Many differ on what works best… for them. Making a blanket statement like that just seems counter productive. Maybe another brand aid will be an improvement. OP wont know till other aids are tired. I would suggest demo’ing other brands, not limiting OP’s choice to 1

[mr.smithster]

I will add that my new Jabra 20’s have much less hair and glasses noise than my Resound One’s. Huge improvement

[cvkemp]

We all are different with different likes an dislikes. I will always talk from my experiences. But I will always say that each person has to maximize their own experiences.

[Jonathan_B]

As OP I figured I’d jump back in. I kept the intent 1s (changed color though).

A few take aways.

1. I do think something was wrong with my first pair (right) as the talking through a fan thing is mostly absent in the new color pair.

2. I learned to deal with the glasses thing. I figured I’d rather get new glasses than inferior HA

3. The tech in the intents is almost too good. I had to set up a 4th mode for driving in the car to deal with wind noise.

So far pretty happy. They’re my first HA though.

[Volusiano]

Thanks for the update, @Jonathan_B . Glad to hear that you’re able to deal with the glasses thing. It’d be such a shame if you had to downgrade to the Real or the More to resolve your glasses fitment issue.

I can’t help but wonder that the “talking through a fan” thing is simply a setup issue in your original pair, where the feedback management was set to Normal and now it’s set to Low. Some folks experience what they call “fluttering” when it’s set to Normal, and changing it to Low (or OFF) helped solve the fluttering issue to them. I don’t know if this is what you call “talking through a fan” or not, but perhaps when you talk, it senses the potential for feedback and starts the fluttering to eliminate this feedback.